Selected: CO. DOWN, KILKEEL, CHRIST CHURCH (CI)
Name: | O'FARRELL, PATRICK |
Building: | CO. DOWN, KILKEEL, CHRIST CHURCH (CI) |
Date: | 1812-1818 |
Nature: | P.O'F 'laid before the parish plans and an estimate for building a new church on an entirely new site', 1812. Datestone on S wall reads:'Aedificatum Anno Domini 1815'. Consecrated 14 Aug 1818. Total cost £4613.19s.3½d. For Lord Kilmorey. |
Refs: |
S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 102; P.J. Rankin, Historic Buildings…in the Mourne area of South Down (UAHS, 1975), 45(illus.),52(no. 26); Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 203(illus.); exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 199. |
Name: | ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS |
Building: | CO. DOWN, KILKEEL, CHRIST CHURCH (CI) |
Date: | 1857 |
Nature: | Church reopened, 6 Sep 1857, after remodelling of nave and addition of gallery. Contractor: Robert Magee, Newry. |
Refs: | Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 1, no. 18 (Sep 1857), 361. |
Name: | WELLAND & GILLESPIE |
Building: | CO. DOWN, KILKEEL, CHRIST CHURCH (CI) |
Date: | 1862 |
Nature: | Proposed addition of S transept and polygonal chancel.. |
Refs: | Signed drawing, dated 1862, in RCB Library, portfolio 11, but see Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 203, which says that S transept was erected, 1857-8 and chancel in 1903; DB 4, 1 Aug 1862, 199; B 21, ? ? 1863, 605 |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. DOWN, KILKEEL, CHRIST CHURCH (CI) |
Date: | 1886 |
Nature: | Church reopened 15 Jun 1886 after addition of N transept in memory of late rector, Rev. J. Forbes Close. Handsome stained-glass window also erected in his memory. |
Refs: | IB 28, 15 Jun 1886, 187 |
Name: | CLOSE, SAMUEL PATRICK |
Building: | CO. DOWN, KILKEEL, CHRIST CHURCH (CI) |
Date: | 1902 |
Nature: | Tenders invited for carrying out alterations and additions (including chancel?), Apr 1902. |
Refs: | Irish Times, 8 Apr 1902; IB 43, 24 Apr 1902, 1118; B 82, 12 Apr 1902, 380; Angela E. McGuinness, 'Samuel Patrick Close: Architect' (unpublished master's thesis, Queen's University, Belfast, 1990), 84,130; for dates cf. Fred Rankin, ed., Clergy of Down and Dromore (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996), 203. |